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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Android’s ‘Business Thrust’ predicted to crush Apple

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Till last year Apple was a pioneer in the Global mobile market with its patented Apple App Store and was earning good revenue. But now the scenario is getting changed with the entry of another big name Google in the category with its Mobile Platform — Android. Alike Apple, Google is also giving more focus [...]

Facebook and Google skew like the Ministry of Truth in the Orwellian-Like Tale of the Filter Bubble

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There is a new form of self-indulgent online unaware narcissism going on — news filtering. Many of the most popular internet sites are skewing the information that you see online, to your likes and habits. And while some argue that this helpful tool personalizes the web, Eli Pariser thinks that it is turning us all [...]

Is Phishing Gone? Maybe they’ve just gone Vishing

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Reverse phone lookup services have been around for years. While people have been historically skeptical about what is in reality a database no more invasive of privacy than a traditional telephone directory, these fears might take a new form in the art of vishing. Vishing is a relatively new scam based on old tricks. It [...]

A Blogger’s B-Plan

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Ingenuity is a pre-requisite for money-making, but Blogging has not yet acquired the cut-throatness of other business ventures, it still remains a hobby. Most bloggers seem to put on blinders when it comes to monetizing their ventures. They do not see the need to multiply their blogs and turn their one time jackpots into a [...]

Business Intelligence & Analytics enjoy sales up by 13.5%

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Business Intelligence, analytics and performance management applications seem to have enjoyed a good amount of revenue through sales. Business Intelligence as quoted in Wikipedia “refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/ or departments, or by associated costs and incomes. BI technologies provide historical, [...]

Facebook Returns to “Hacker Roots” with Open-Source Data Center Project

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In a surprise move Facebook has gone back to their “hacker roots” — their words not mine, by releasing their data center designs to the public. In a project dubbed the Open Compute project, Facebook has busted open the secretive world of data centers by making their designs public and open source. We decided to [...]